A thread to recommend stuff on the BBC
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MikeMA
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There is some great stuff hidden away on BBC4 which I sometimes miss.
While channel hopping last night trying to avoid Britain's Got Talent, BBC Young Dancer and the Eurovision Song Contest, I spotted a BBC archive programme about John Williams on BBC4. I really enjoy his playing and it was well worth watching. Interesting too to hear him and Julian Bream talk about each other and their playing together. I'd forgotten quite how popular he was back in the 1980s/90s, often appearing on prime time TV with the likes of Val Doonican and Eric Sykes, about whom Williams was very complimentary, saying he envied them their easy relationship with an audience, which he didn't think he had as a classical musician, and how they had helped him to bring his music to a wider audience. The old Sky stuff was interesting too! I must dig my old LPs out!
While channel hopping last night trying to avoid Britain's Got Talent, BBC Young Dancer and the Eurovision Song Contest, I spotted a BBC archive programme about John Williams on BBC4. I really enjoy his playing and it was well worth watching. Interesting too to hear him and Julian Bream talk about each other and their playing together. I'd forgotten quite how popular he was back in the 1980s/90s, often appearing on prime time TV with the likes of Val Doonican and Eric Sykes, about whom Williams was very complimentary, saying he envied them their easy relationship with an audience, which he didn't think he had as a classical musician, and how they had helped him to bring his music to a wider audience. The old Sky stuff was interesting too! I must dig my old LPs out!
david ellwood
Kirabosi Kognoscente
Killing eve series 2 starts soon!
Amber Audio
This is the Day
Yeah should be soon, hopefully end May. Wonder why it airs early in the USA when it’s a BBC show. Right up there with the best series of last year.
Weekender
pfm Member
Darcy Bussell: Dancing to Happiness.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0btt5n1
http://www.companychameleon.com/2019/01/dancing-to-happiness-with-darcey-bussell/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0btt5n1
http://www.companychameleon.com/2019/01/dancing-to-happiness-with-darcey-bussell/
musiclover
themoonisaballoon
some good Johnnie walker radio docs on specific albums including Donald Fagen's The Nightfly
Mullardman
Moderately extreme...
Killing Eve!! Chillng and hilarious in equal measure, with terrific acting all around.
darrenyeats
pfm Member
Too believable! Great telly.
Weekender
pfm Member
Age of the Image BBC4.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fzmc
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fzmc
stephen bennett
Mr Enigma
The Legend of Hell House is on Talking pictures. It’s a superbly atmospheric ‘70s British horror with a brilliant score by Hodgson, Derbyshire and Simpson. Written by Richard Matheson and a great cast.
Stephen
Stephen
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
Good film if a little bit too derivative of 'The Haunting of Hill House'. I have the soundtrack although how official it is, I don't know.
The film also gave us this:
stephen bennett
Mr Enigma
Well all the Hill Houses are. The score is brilliant and I love the look of the films of this period.
Stephen
Stephen
Big Tabs
looking backwards, going forwards
The wife recommended Staged, we watched it yesterday.
It is about rehearsing a play, Pirandello’s "Six Characters In Search Of An Author."
(The Wife has directed the play, - I have to admit that I have never heard of it)
Michael Sheen riffing with David Tennant plus some surprises. Beautiful writing, we were laughing many times, and the script is as sharp as a needle.
We saw Good Omens last year (?) with Sheen & Tennant
)) - which is very entertaining and shows a visible synergy twixt David and Michael.Staged is one of the best things I have seen this year. Very funny.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p08dnl67/staged
Highly recommended.
Derek Wright
pfm Member
The Salisbury Poisoning
three episodes shown earlier this week and now on iPlayer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p08dqns1/the-salisbury-poisonings
Well worth watching for many reasons demonstrating how the problem was contained, the heroine being the Wiltshire Council's director of public health, Tracy Daszkiewicz who cordinated the recovery and coordination of the various authorities.
three episodes shown earlier this week and now on iPlayer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p08dqns1/the-salisbury-poisonings
Well worth watching for many reasons demonstrating how the problem was contained, the heroine being the Wiltshire Council's director of public health, Tracy Daszkiewicz who cordinated the recovery and coordination of the various authorities.